M/S Bonheur

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  4/1918 - Levert fra Burmeister & Wain`s Maskin & Skibsbyggeri, København, Danmark til A/S Borgå v/Fred Olsen & Co. Kristiania - BONHEUR
  23.12.1918 - Minesprengt  23 kvm. Ø av Coquet Island (NØ for Newcastle), på reise Norge til Syd Amerika i ballast.
  
  Skipsfører:
  R. Holter-Sørensen.
  
  Maskineri:
  2 stk dieselmotorer, 4takt enkeltvirkende, 2x6 cylindere. To propeller. Maskineri bygget ved Burmeister & Wain, København, Danmark.
  
  
  Erik Sommer:
  From the newspaper 'Hull Daily Mail' - Tuesday 31 December 1918. Read via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk TRAGEDY OF HULL- BOUND SHIP. (BY OUR OWN REPORTER.) The story of the ill-starred maiden voyage of the monstre motor-boat Bonheur, which was mined while bound to Hull for oil, as stated in Friday's "Mail," was told Grimsby Coroner's Court yesterday, when an inquest was held upon the two victims, Helge Bang (22), seaman, and George Hansen (21), engine-room hand, both natives of Christiania. The chief officer, Galmor Hansen, told the Coroner that the Bonheur, which was 12,000 tons register, was the biggest motor-ship yet built. She left Mandal for Hull for oil, and at 1 pm. on December 23rd hit a mine forward and commenced to founder. The weather was bad, and after standing by the ship till 5 o'clock, he and 20 men, including the deceased, left in larger lifeboat. The rest of the crew - 16 - were then launching another lifeboat. Witness lost the ship in the darkness and snow. Through Monday night, Tuesday and Tuesday night, Christmas Day and Christmas night, and the whole of Thursday they were adrift, exposed biting cold, winds, rain, and snow and hail squalls. All of them suffered terribly from the cold, and Bang and Hansen died. On Thursday evening they were picked up by the trawler Ostrich. At that time they were all very much exhausted, and pinched black and blue with frost. Some of the men were still under treatment. Witness could not wear his boots, and appeared with frost-bitten feet swathed in wool. "I congratulate you upon a very providential escape," said the Coroner. Finn Larsen, one of the engineers, said that everything possible was done to keep the two men alive. He gave them repeated doses cognac and whisky from the small store in the boat, and strove to maintain circulation, but they were all repeatedly soaked with chilling spray, and on occasion the boat was half filled with water. Returning a verdict that the men lost their lives from exposure following the mining of the ship, the Coroner said it was providential that the trawler arrived saved the others from sharing their fate. Nothing had been heard up to yesterday noon of the ship and the other 16 hands.
  
  Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?170027

   

   

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